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After '08

Social Policy and the Global Financial Crisis
  • Edited by: Stephen McBride , Rianne Mahon and Gerard W. Boychuk
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2015
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Did the 2007-08 global financial crisis mark a turning point for social policy, or did it reinforce existing neo-liberal approaches to governance?
Did the 2007-08 global financial crisis mark a turning point for social policy, or did it reinforce existing neo-liberal approaches to governance?

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Stephen McBride is a professor of political science and Canada Research Chair in Public Policy and Globalization at McMaster University. He is the co-author (with Heather Whiteside) of Private Affluence, Public Austerity: Economic Crisis and Democratic Malaise in Canada, and co-editor (with Donna Baines) of Orchestrating Austerity: Impacts and Resistance.

Rianne Mahon holds a CIGI chair in comparative social policy at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and is a professor in the Department of Political Science at Wilfrid Laurier University. She is the co-editor (with Stephen McBride) of The OECD and Transnational Governance, co-editor (with Roger Keil) of Leviathan Undone? and co-editor (with Fiona Robinson) of Feminist Ethics and Social Politics.

Gerard W. Boychuk is chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Waterloo and a professor at the Balsillie School of International Affairs. He is co-editor of the journal Global Social Policy, co-editor of the book series American Governance and Public Policy (Georgetown University Press), and author of National Health Insurance in the United States and Canada: Race, Territory and the Roots of Difference, winner of the 2009 Donald Smiley Prize.

Contributors: Berkay Ayhan, Marlea Clarke, Sarah Cook, Bob Deacon, Kevin Farnsworth, Anthony Hall, Nigel Haworth, Steve Hughes, Zoe Irving, Jane Jenson, Ronald Labonté, Wing Lam, Lucy Luccisano, Laura Macdonald, Arne Ruckert, Antje Vetterlein, Heather Whiteside

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Michael Hill, author of The Public Policy Process:
Original and well crafted, After ’08 provides the first comparative overview of the impact of the global financial crisis on social policy in various contexts worldwide. A key focus is the extent to which international responses to the crisis have either intensified setbacks to social policy or mitigated some of them. The volume is particularly interesting in exploring evidence for the latter, notably in Latin America.

Christoph Hermann, author of Capitalism and the Political Economy of Work Time:

This is a unique and timely volume. Combining international research findings on the role of social policy after the financial crash with theoretical discourses and pressing policy questions, After ’08 will interest political scientists and sociologists, as well as administrators from international organizations and social policy activists.


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Stephen McBride
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Inclusive Growth and the Social Investment Perspective
Jane Jenson
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Welfare States and the Financial Crisis
Kevin Farnsworth and Zoë Irving
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International Organizations

The IMF and Social Policies in Times of Crisis
Antje Vetterlein
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A Challenge to the World Bank
Bob Deacon
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Nigel Haworth and Steve Hughes
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Conditional Cash Transfers, Social Policy, and the Globalizing Role of the World Bank
Anthony Hall
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Emerging Areas

Rianne Mahon
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Lucy Luccisano and Laura Macdonald
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Cushioning the Blow of the Recession?
Marlea Clarke
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Change and Continuity in China’s Post-Crisis Social Policy
Sarah Cook and Wing Lam
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Comparing Ireland, Portugal, and Greece
Berkay Ayhan and Stephen McBride
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Crisis Era Policy Making in Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia
Heather Whiteside
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Social Determinants of Health under Canada’s Neo-Liberal Capture
Ronald Labonté and Arne Ruckert
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October 1, 2015
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9780774829656
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